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Have you noticed a spike in the number of spam email messages you’ve been receiving, but have no idea why? The answer could be as easy as that new domain name you just registered.

Exposing Ryan’s Privates

ICANN policy requires that domain name owners provide a valid address, phone and email address or risk losing their domain. What they fail to tell you is that doing so exposes your privates; name, address, phone number, and email. That information is publicly available to anyone performing a “whois” on your domain name. Spammers and unscrupulous email list brokers harvest that information and sell it. Once your information is harvested, what can you do to stop the spam?

Keeping Your Email Address Private

While this technique won’t stop spam completely, it will keep your real email address hidden. Somewhere in your domain name’s control panel should be an email privacy feature that replaces your real email address with a randomly generated address that forwards any mail to your real address. Yes, the randomly generated address can still be harvested, but the system will change it every few days, thereby rendering the old one useless to the spammers. However, your other information like name and mailing address is still exposed.

Private Domain Name Registration

This method is by far the best for protecting your information from prying eyes and spammers. Your domain name registrar should offer the option of enabling a privacy manager, sometimes called Whois protection. Instead of displaying your information, a proxy service or your registrar’s information is shown instead. The only ones that can breach that veil of privacy are law enforcement investigating a crime or a court order. Some registrars will charge a substantial fee for Whois protection while others give it away for free and renew it at a drastically reduced price.

Should A Business Hide Its Information?

A wise choice would be to hide the information at the registrar level, but have it available somewhere on your website or blog on a Contact Us page. How much you choose to expose is up to you. Consider creating a graphical image of the information to prevent automated robots from harvesting the text from the page. Contact forms can be used on your site to automatically forward messages from visitors to you while keeping your email address hidden from email harvesters.

Author AJ Farro recommends getting free Whois protection the next time you register a domain name. Also, help save the earth by using environmentally friendly web hosting for your new domain. Click here to view a list of deeply discounted green web hosting providers.

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Free websites and blogs can only take a serious entrepreneur so far.  They’re a great sandbox for getting your feet wet and figuring things out, but they’re full of advertisements, gaudy templates and themes that reek of “free”.  It’s like doing business out of the back seat of your car – with a Hannah Montana sticker on the bumper.  Few people, if anyone, will take you seriously.

If you build your business on free sites, you risk losing everything because you do not own the site and it can be taken away from you for any reason.

In May 2009, Facebook disabled accounts with, what it “assumed”, were fictitious names.  People with legitimate accounts that have spent years building personal or business relationships had everything disappear in the blink of an eye.

When I first started using free blogs, Blogger shut down one of my blogs and to this day I don’t know the exact reason why.  It could have been because I was using it to pre-sell affiliate products.  It could also be because I hyperlinked every occurrence of my main keyword to my main website and they considered that spammy.  What did I know, I was a noob.  I couldn’t get back into the blog to fix it.  No amount of contacting them ever got an answer and I was forced to abandon it.  Can you imagine if I had built an entire business around that blog? 

I also know that using free WordPress.com blogs for business purposes is a violation of their terms and they will shut you down, too.

Many people starting out don’t know that because they never read the terms of service.  Stay away from free blogs.  You need to own your own blog or website.  Always remain in control of your business.

Before you can run your own website or blog you need your own domain name and web hosting.  The good news is, it’s cheap to get started and I’m going to give you my personal tips for doing it.

Warning:  Do not take advantage of “free domain names for life” when you buy web hosting.  They are only free if you keep your hosting account with them.  Plus, you will not own the name, the web hosting company will.  Always remain in control of your business.

Domain Registration

I’m not going to get real deep into selecting a domain name because that’s beyond the scope of this material.  However, I will leave you with a few guidelines. 

If you want to be found in the search engines, it only makes sense to include a keyword or two that people are using to find what it is you’re selling.  So if you’re an affiliate selling outdoor furniture, incorporating “outdoor furniture” into your domain name is nothing but beneficial.  BestOutdoorFurniture.com beats TomsDeals.com.  No one is going to be searching for outdoor furniture using the words “toms deals”, but they will be searching with “outdoor furniture”, even “best outdoor furniture”.

Only use a .com name.  Stay away from .net, .biz, .info and all the other dots if you can help it.  People don’t remember extensions so when they type in your domain name they will be typing your domain name and automatically adding .com to it.  So get found.  Don’t be invisible. 

Make a list of several domain names because the chances of finding something that isn’t already taken is going to be slim.  Oh, and to stay out of legal hot water, do not use trademarked names in your domain name. 

A great example of that is new businesses that come on board at Commission Junction or other affiliate networks frequently have no restrictions on their name.  Then affiliates will go hog wild snapping up domain names with the vendor’s name in them and spend weeks or months promoting and establishing an online presence.  Then sooner or later the vendor modifies its terms and suddenly bans the use of trademarked names.  It’s happened to me more than once.  It’s a knife to the core of your business.   

Hot Buying Tip

• Get your domain name at NameCheap.com. 
• $9.69 for a .com name, but use the coupon code and get it for $8.81.
• They don’t sneak stuff into the shopping cart during checkout like other registrars.
• They have a very easy to use Domain Manager interface.
• NameCheap is a great domain registrar, but don’t buy web hosting there because you pay too much.  Just get a domain name.
• Be sure to enable the free privacy manager on the domain.  It will hide your personal details from spammers.  goDaddy charges $8.99/year for privacy protection.  At NameCheap, it’s free for the first year and renews at only $2.88/year after that. 

Web Hosting

In order for your new domain name to be seen online, you need to have it hosted by a web hosting company.  It pains me to see web hosting companies take advantage of their customers, so I will only recommend companies with outstanding customer service and reliability.  I also wouldn’t recommend something I don’t use myself.

Hot Buying Tip

I have accounts at both of these places and both are very reliable. 

iPage Hosting- Unlimited green hosting with an easy-to-use control panel.  Their “anytime guarantee” is the best in the business.  Customer service is outstanding.  Server response time is super.  Free Carbonite PC backups.  Easy blog installation.

SuperGreen Hosting- Unlimited green hosting with cPanel.  Very reliable.  My WordPress blogs run at lightning speed and customer service is quick and courteous.  Easy blog setup.

I hope you found these tips helpful for getting your business off on the right foot.

Tips for Traffic Pulling Domain Name Registration
by Smit

Now a days, internet marketing is the most effective and efficient method to generate business worldwide. In this people used to promote themselves online, in different marketplaces. To start an internet marketing for your business you need a domain name. Getting an effective domain name is the most important step for online business success. Before going for domain name registration, it is very important to have an action plan.

Below are few of the tips to help you to find the right domain name for your business, that will be a successful choice for you.

1.  The extension of domain name should make a notice to the user about your location and target marketplace. If your business targets to local community than you must go to get country specific domains. You will get benefits of such local domains in your search engine results and people in that country will know that they are dealing with local entity. If you would like ti target globally or you are based in US than go for .com domains.

2.  Use of keyword in domain names sometimes helps in search engine results

3.  Short names are much easier to remember and spell correctly. Using long name, by only one spelling mistake you can lose a potential visitor forever. If it is hard to pronounce than you can’t expect users to spread the word.

4.  Try to avoid hyphens. If straightforward names are gone than its better to come up with different idea with different name.

5.  Go for reputable domain name registration company. Some of the companies are just the middlemen, they charge much higher fees for the domain name you want. In some of the cases they register using their own information and it becomes difficult for the customer to do anything with that domain.

6.  When buying a domain name avoid copyright and trademark infringement. Companies can take legal actions against the website owner, so be careful.

7.  Try to buy several different extensions of your domain name, so no one else can violate on your success by registering a similar name.

8.  Before you proceed to pay for the domain registration, always do a spell check. Once you registered the domain name, you can’t edit it even in your domain control panel.

These tips will help you to register an efficient domain name for your business.

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Do all of your domain name registration at NameCheap.  Registration is easy and they don’t sneak stuff into your shopping cart like goDaddy does.  You can get a .com for only $8.81/year when you use the May coupon code.  Their domain manager control panel is easy to use, too.  

Free Privacy Manager is included to protect your personal information from spammers.   

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Domain name registrar NameCheap is the cheapest place we’ve found for buying a domain name, and no, we don’t get paid to tell you that.  (That keeps prices LOW!)  Plus, they don’t confuse you during the order process by trying to sneak stuff into your shopping cart like other companies do.

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IMPORTANT! 

• Do NOT buy your domain name from a web hosting company.  You won’t own it, they will.
• Do NOT accept the “free domain” offer when you buy web hosting.  You won’t own it, they will.
• Do NOT use coupon codes to get a “free domain”.  You won’t own it, they will.
• ALWAYS buy your domain name at NameCheap before you buy web hosting.
• Then when you buy web hosting,  tick the selection that says you already have a domain name.

Purchase your domain name from NameCheap here

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